On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Simon McVittie writes ("Re: daemon user naming scheme"):
> > It is reasonable to use /var/lib/foo (or /run/foo or /var/cache/foo or
> > /var/games/foo) as the home directory of a system user whose name is
> > _foo, debian-foo, Debian-foo or whatever.
>
> You need to be careful that the directory chosen never has undesirable
> permissions, since there are many ways that access can be granted to a
> user foo by putting things in ~foo.
You could use /nonexistent as dæmon user home directory,
but only if pam_mkhomedir gets patched to never create it…
bye,
//mirabilos
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